The Herbalife battle has drawn in investing bigwigs like Carl Icahn, Daniel Loeb and Bill Ackman, but this is no place for the small investor. MarketWatch's Chuck Jaffe joins Markets Hub.

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... I ... Herbalife ... Herbalife fever let me know it all about the ... stock's not really moving ... this is the big big game on Wall Street ... is one that you should be playing the top Jaffe for MarketWatch ... is here ... I'd chalk that up until we have an opinion on the Herbalife story ... well you ... know we are early in twenty thirteen ... and is the first stock that makes me wish I was still writing stupid Investment of the week which I gave up of course at the end of ... December right because ... for an average investor Manny's an officer ... or interestingly may shock you with anything ... right use of the year and the answer is you need to stay away from its like explains why I mean why ... I yelled Bill Ackman says that all of them ... can load focused on speaking of the night was why shouldn't you try to play off some of these big dogs ... because you are trying to run with ... dogs that are bigger and have it you know those big teeth in all the big dog in your not a big dog ... and you just can't tell how this is gonna wind up playing out elbow ... Herbalife pre release of earnings numbers and they were very positive that ... he resign analysts saying that the stock again uppers highest ... hill over untraded and well over a hundred and ... twenty pass the fifty two week on the stock ... the look of this ago ok ... despite the fact that could make a valuation case that would save by the stock right now ... thanks to the hedge fund managers who may get something of a bargain ... if you're the average investor ... you can't necessarily weighed around to see if that ... plays out you are swimming in the short Bank ... and if you're short the euro the shark tank ... here called bait ... this coming the rapper one almost thirty years in a debate with Bill Ackman says about the pyramid schemes and ... they know that they can't history study can make the case ... why should not one show and I ... tried again and this is a ... good shot ... nothing going on in the stock market these days to everything's going up and heard the news one should not take a flier ... because there's an old surge on Wall Street ... that the market has been crazy longer than you can stay solvent ... and the fact is that this is an absolutely crazy situation which folks to trust me ... Bill Ackman ... and Carl Icahn and those guys ... they do not care about you the average investors can try to make a play here they care about what they are doing and if you happen to get steamrolled while they're doing it ... they are not going to lose a seconds worth of sleep ... but if you get steamrolled by them ... it's just not a place you have to have such a strong constitution ... and the average investor ... doesn't ... the average investors out there going ok I can see the case I could make the case ... that sometimes ... even when you can make the case ... you have to decide whether or not you wanna go to the spot on the map that says here there be monsters ... this is a big here there be monsters case ... is not the monsters always coming debt due ... by May and when you get to that edge into the map when you're not sure that your struggle even in a world ... which ... for anybody is going into the stock is not behaving like any other stock in your work will go ... is you don't know anything that being bandied about by the shorts this well ... yet know that you've got to worry about ... I just don't think most people to get to the edge of the map ... lookout ago of dying ... let's let's go monsters I'm and I'm ready to go ... I hate to shop on a rant I like it very much ... on Iran to show thank you for tomorrow ...